Songs for the Flames (Paperback)

"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine "Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de Leon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive country's deep conservatism. The characters in Songs for the Flames are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are irrevocably changed by the experience. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

General

Imprint:	MacLehose Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Translators:	Anne McLean
Dimensions:	196 x 126 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-5294-0547-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	1-5294-0547-5
Barcode:	9781529405477

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